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No, you had firsthand witnesses in the oval office, john dean, john mitchell, you dont have any of that? >> we dont have -- as many courageous men in the white house like them right now, but we do have a lot of the presidents appointees who have come forward, you know, people like fiona hill, people like ambassador sondland. >> most of them never talked to the president, im just saying why not -- here is the argument, you guys say that the president used his political powers for his -- used his ...

No, you had firsthand witnesses in the oval office, john dean, john mitchell, you dont have any of that? >> we dont have -- as many courageous men in the white house like them right now, but we do have a lot of the presidents appointees who have come forward, you know, people like fiona hill, people like ambassador sondland. >> most of them never talked to the president, im just saying why not -- here is the argument, you guys say that the president used his political powers for his -- used his ...

No, you had firsthand witnesses in the oval office, john dean, john mitchell, you dont have any of that? >> we dont have -- as many courageous men in the white house like them right now, but we do have a lot of the presidents appointees who have come forward, you know, people like fiona hill, people like ambassador sondland. >> most of them never talked to the president, im just saying why not -- here is the argument, you guys say that the president used his political powers for his -- used his ...

Eric: the president says its a perfect call and there was no quid pro quo. >> its clear from the witnesses who have come forward, patriots, people who spent their entire careers defending this country, and they believe it was a quid pro quo. the president is going to paint his behavior in the most positive light. but when others like colonel vindman come forward. who suffered serious injury on the battlefield to protect this country. i grant them more credibility than the president who uses ever...

Would do. and i think they were rightly anxious in ukraine that they would make the statement and then trump would walk away from his promise and he would have it both ways and he would for russia expose ukraine to the possible danger without the funds to defend itself for the javelin missiles and other things. >> so, joyce, is this an admission of the bribery plot? >> you know, i dont think that congressional investigators had to have ambassador sondlands testimony to make the bribery case. its...

Questions in written form to the mueller report. i see this as a sideshow. what do you see? i see a sideshow. the notion of saying, were going to have a response thats vetted. normally youre talking about the president of the united states or any other fact witness, you would kind of shrink away from that and say, i would like to hear to test the persons credibility. but the whistle-blower protection act, this is something thats very generous and magnanimous, frankly, of a whistle-blower who fol...

Redactions for classified material. that will be an important step. so we all will have an opportunity to learn what miss croft testified to and is testifying to in realtime today. as well as the many other witnesses who have come forward, but again, i dont want to lose sight of the bigger picture, craig. ultimately, from the evidence weve already seen, whether its the call summary notes, the whistle-blower complaint, and the public reporting with respect to some of the witness testimony, the op...

Go along the administration on this stonewalling and delaying or do you kind of come forward, come clean and produce your documents. >> why do you -- i know we need to let you go, but why do you think that strategy will work? the president doesnt think there was any penalty for -- i mean, the mueller report accuses him of obstructs multiple times. he hasnt -- hasnt bothered him, hasnt bothered his supporters or congressional republicans. why do you think obstructing is going to bother them now? ...

Where theres $250 million in aid to ukraine that congress has approved as a quid pro quo for getting something on -- that will help his campaign. but whats really at stake for us in the intelligence community is the integrity of the whistleblower system. with intelligence, if a whistleblower is going come forward, they have to be very careful, because if they present information without authorization, then theyre subject to prosecution and losing their job. and by definition, with classified inf...

And it was certainly our expectation when we wrote this statute that there would be an opportunity for anyone in the i.c. to come to the committee and expose wrongdoing, and thats always been the case because whistle-blower complaints, even when they were found not credible, even when they were found not urgent, were referred to our committee and the whistle-blower was told you can talk to the committee. here the director is refusing to tell the whistle-blower that. in fact, the department of ju...